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2. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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   Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...

3. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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   Mauve (from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a color that is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow [27] with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. [28] Since the color mauve has a hue code of 276, it may be regarded as a pale tone of violet.

4. Lilac (color) - Wikipedia

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   Lilac is a light shade of purple representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colors shown below as pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet . The first recorded use of the term lilac as an English color name was ...

5. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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   Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet.It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name.The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender ...

6. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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   Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2] The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.

7. List of U.S. state and territory flowers - Wikipedia

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   Purple lilac (state flower) Syringa vulgaris: 1919: Pink lady's slipper (state wildflower) Cypripedium acaule: 1991: New Jersey: Violet: Viola sororia: 1971: New Mexico: Yucca flower: Yucca: 1927: New York: Rose: Rosa: 1955: North Carolina: Flowering dogwood (state flower) Cornus florida: 1941: Carolina lily (state wildflower) Lilium michauxii ...

8. Iris (color) - Wikipedia

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   Iris (color) The iris genus contains 260–300 species of flower, many of them of blue and purple shades. Iris is an ambiguous color term, usually referring to shades ranging from blue-violet to violet. However, in certain applications, it has been applied to an even wider array of colors, including pale blue, mauve, pink, and even yellow (the ...

9. Syringa - Wikipedia

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   The usual flower colour is a shade of purple (often a light purple or "lilac"), but white, pale yellow and pink, and even a dark burgundy color are also found. The flowers grow in large panicles, and in several species have a strong fragrance. Flowering varies between mid spring to early summer, depending on the species.